December, 2022

Introduction

What are cats?

Cats Data

Cats Figure

Cats Described in Two Words

Schrödinger’s cat

\[ \begin{aligned} ih\frac{\partial }{\partial t} \Psi (x,t) &= \left[ - \frac{h^2}{2m} \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} + V(x,t)\right] \Psi (x,t) \\ ih\frac{\partial }{\partial t} \Psi (x,t) &= \frac{1}{\sqrt2}|\text{alive}\rangle + \frac{1}{\sqrt2}|\text{dead}\rangle \end{aligned} \]

Schrödinger and Trimmer (1980)

Code

nr_cats_alive <- .Machine$double.xmax

Cat Figure 2

Biography

Schrödinger, Erwin, and John D Trimmer. 1980. “The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics: A Translation of Schr ödinger’s ‘Cat Paradox’paper.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 124 (5): 323–38.